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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1909
Page
8
City councilmen uncover a scheme to bypass the referendum by inserting an emergency clause into nonemergency ordinances. If attached, the measure faces a town vote or a two thirds council majority enactment, raising questions about emergency clauses intended to preserve public safety and immediate effect.
The Welsh Eisteddfod at the Exposition will offer 2600 in prizes with Evan Williams as soloist and four sessions across Friday and Saturday at the exposition auditorium. The Tabernacle Choir of Salt Lake City will compete in the $1000 choral division, and Daniel Protheroe will preside. Protheroe, Chicago director and composer, is known for The Night May a Thousand Eyes and The Nun of Nidaros. Williams will sing at each session, though this is his Northwest debut.
State and local officials from King county Seattle Tacoma Georgetown will attend a Do wamiteh River Improvement club barbecue in Oxbow on Saturday September 4 to celebrate the waterway passage. Invitations go to officials this week with several legislators expected to speak and feed 8000 to 6000 noon attendees. A separate dispatch reports France Aviation Week drawing thousands of visitors but accompanying price surges. In Virginia a Confederate monument in Keech county was unveiled at Tappahannock.
United States Senator Charlee Dick of Ohio, touring the Pacific coast with his family, declared that the tariff bill signed by President Taft will satisfy the people for many years to come.
Contractor C. J. Brickenn will begin excavation of the Lake Washington canal around September 20. The Chamber Commerce is urged to arrange a celebration for the inauguration of the work. Also noted are visits of Japanese Prince and Princess Koni en route to New York for the marble celebration, and the Montana senate irrigation committee inspecting Flathead government projects.
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